December 14, 2017 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s Mayak issues partial admission to radioactive ruthenium leak A senior official at the Mayak Chemical Combine has taken a small step toward admitting that a radioactive isotope discovered…
April 25, 2017 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Thirty-one years on, Chernobyl takes a place among humanity’s darkest passages This year, April 26, the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, will mark the first year the United Nations observes…
November 23, 2016 Accidents and incidents, Climate change, International climate conferences On climate change pivot, it’s too early to know if Trump believes what Trump says US president-elect Donald Trump seemed to have softened his pledge to step out of the Paris Climate Agreement which –…
November 15, 2016 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Enormous containment arch finally moving into place over exploded Chernobyl reactor Over the next five days, engineers at Chernobyl, the Ukrainian site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, will be moving…
May 1, 2016 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Nuclear submarine fire in Russia Far East again raises questions surrounding safe dismantlement A decommissioned Russian nuclear submarine moored off a naval base on the Kamchatka peninsula caught fire on Friday, but there…
